CAMERON Jerome has revealed how he was told to go out and make life a misery for Richard Stearman and Michael Mancienne.

CAMERON Jerome has revealed how he was told to go out and make life a misery for Richard Stearman and Michael Mancienne.

Blues’ goalscorer came on for the second half in place of Kevin Phillips and proved a constant menance to Wolves’ England centre-halves.

“I think Kev said he was a little bit tired and the gaffer decided to change it and get fresh legs on,’’ said Jerome.

“It seemed to work out all right. Kev has played a lot of games lately and the gaffer’s got the options available.

“He had been highlighting the defensive line Wolves hold. We looked at the video, we saw they were a bit flat and played quite a high line.

“The gaffer said for me to try and isolate them, get on their backs and use

my speed to the flicks and passes through.

“With my pace, I was always going to run away from them.”

Describing his 48th-minute goal, Jerome said: “Marcus Bent put them off a bit, I took it from their lad [Stearman] and tried to take it across the other defender [Mancienne] and shoot. He got a little deflection, but it still went in – they all count.”

Phillips, Bent and James McFadden had already been testing Wolves’ resolve to the full in a dominant first-half Blues display.Jerome said: “We got at them, whereas other teams might have been a bit wary of how they have been playing this season.

“They might have sat back against them, and that’s when they come flying out at you and become quite a force.

“We didn’t. We were very positive and I thought we bossed them in the first half, and played them off the park a little bit at times. We created more chances in the game and we were disappointed not to have won.”